Jonathan W. Wilson

Attacking presentism as a mindset of younger scholars doesn’t solve any of the historical profession's problems.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.

Historians tell stories about the past. A new book argues that those stories are often dangerously wrong.

The pessimism of some historians does an injustice to marginalized people of the past and can produce cynicism in students.

Originally, the term referred to a specific kind of foreign political violence.